Oversee.net - parent company of DomainSponsor - has announced that CEO Jeff Kupietzky is leaving the company at the end of August for personal reasons. A statement released by Mason Cole this afternoon reported that Kupietzky will be moving to Israel with his family.According to the statement "The day-to-day operations and strategic vision for Oversee... Continue Reading →
New Domain Apps at WhyPark
Domain monetizer WhyPark released two new Domain Apps in July. The Photo Gallery App allows you to feature keyword-based photo galleries on your sites. The Publications App helps you integrate free publications such as eBooks, magazines, and white papers. In some cases the domainer is paid when someone downloads the content, and visitors can get free... Continue Reading →
Sedo Raises its Fees
Domain powerhouse Sedo announced a fee increase on domain sales in a July 1 email. Their new rates take effect August 1. The new fee schedule brings their fees more in line with Afternic - their main U.S. competitor. Instead of a flat 10% fee for their services (with a higher fee for optional broader... Continue Reading →
Can You Make More Money with Frank Schilling?
Frank Schilling’s new InternetTraffic.com service claims to help you make more money than other parking companies. He is apparently using some of the same techniques he uses on his own domains, and reports I've read suggest that the domains can contain both Google feeds and Yahoo/Bing feeds. At first glance this seems to violate the... Continue Reading →
Avoid Google Docs on Domains you may Drop
Ben Reyes is 22 year old British "entrepreneur, developer and hacker" who discovered how to access the complete email history of the previous owner of a domain. With this information he also accessed the person's Amazon account and has access to all sorts of aspects of the former owner's identity. It seems that Google gives... Continue Reading →
When is an Incentive Plan not an Incentive Plan?
Monte Cahn, a domain pioneer and founder of domain registrar Moniker, has sued Oversee.net over the terms of a a $13 million incentive plan that Oversee never paid. Oversee apparently claims that Cahn failed to meet the terms of the incentive plan, while Cahn contents that Oversee shifted his responsibilities in such a way that... Continue Reading →
Google’s Farmer/Panda Update Goes Global, Hurts Keyword Domains
Earlier this week Google Google extended the algorithm change that penalized content farms to the rest of the world. They also incorporated user feedback - dropping the rank of sites that users block in their search results. Domainers have been reporting that his change has significantly hurt their keyword traffic - especially the traffic of... Continue Reading →
Google Ordered to Release Parked Domain Metrics
Online Media Daily reported on Friday that U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd has ordered Google to release metrics related to it's domain parking and "errors" program. The judge is presiding over a potential class-action lawsuit by search marketers against Google. According to the report Google must disclose concerns its assessment of the quality of sites within... Continue Reading →
Afternic Bug deleting domains?
When you get a nibble on a domain you have listed at Afternic you get an email asking you to set a "Floor Price" and a "Buy Now price." The last two times I went into my account to set these prices I ended-up accidently deleting the domains from my account. The first time this... Continue Reading →
Did Google’s Farmer Update Affect Your Portfolio?
Google made a major change in their search algorithm at the end of February to punish "content farms" that serve-up warmed-over low-quality content. There have been some interesting discussions of the impact of this online, including one by Matt Bentley, formerly of Sedo. Matt argues that the Google change is a good thing for domainers.... Continue Reading →
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